Didactics of Translation: Text in Context

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Tables and Figures ix
Preface and Acknowledgements x
List of Abbreviations xi
Chapter I 1
Introduction
Chapter II 6
Translation Studies

1. 
   The concept of translation
   
2. 
   Translation studies as a new discipline
   
3. 
   Translation Theory
   
4. 
   An overview of the main trends in translation studies
   

Chapter III 27
Text-based Approaches to Translation

1. 
   Non-text-based translation approaches
   
2. 
   Text-based translation approaches
   

Chapter IV 84
Didactics of Translation

1. 
   Translator competence and translator training
   
2. 
   Translation teaching in relation to foreign language studies
   
3. 
   Formal academic training
   
4. 
   Defining the scope of translation teaching
   
5. 
   An overview of translation pedagogy in the second half of the twentieth century
   
6. 
   Some current methodologies for the training of translators
   
7. 
   Translation Assessment
   

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Chapter V 140

Translation Teaching Experiment: Text in Context

1. 
   Aims
   
2. 
   Design of the experiment
   
3. 
   The informants’ profile
   
4. 
   The teaching method
   
5. 
   The content of the translation lessons
   
6. 
   The conduct of the experiment
   
7. 
   The students’ performance in the pre-tests and post-tests
   
8. 
   Results and discussion
   

Chapter VI 204
Conclusions
6.1 Preliminaries and global findings

2. 
   Pedagogical implications
   
3. 
   Specific implications